The city of Richmond, Virginia will welcome over 1,000 athletes from approximately 75 nations for this year’s UCI Road World Championships, beginning on 19 September.
Last year’s edition of the annual championships in Ponferrada, Spain encountered numerous financial challenges, but projected figures for Richmond 2015 seem to indicate that this year’s event will fare much better.
It will be only the second time that cycling’s pinnacle world championships come to USA and it is projected...

The Tour de France’s most recent foreign start in Yorkshire, England, has again shown that hosting stages of one of cycling’s Grand Tours is big business for both the hosts and the organisers, with Yorkshire paying a multi-million-pound sum to stage the race start, and the UK expecting an economic return of four times the amount invested in the event.
Foreign starts are increasingly common for cycling’s three major stage races, the Tour de France, Vuelta a España and Giro D’Italia, with...

More than 66,000 participants, 180,000 spectators and an economic impact of £12.4 million ($19.9 million): the figures associated with the inaugural 2013 RideLondon, a weekend of mass participation cycling events in and around the UK capital, make for impressive reading.